94 hp Diagon Alley

The madam's tears were surrounded by flames.During the high-speed rotation, they vaguely saw some wizard's rooms, and they all passed by before they could see clearly.Then it slowed down and stopped squarely in Professor McGonagall's fireplace.The working professor barely looked up when Harry crawled out.

"Good evening, Potter. Don't get too much dust on the rug."

"No, Professor."

Harry straightened his glasses and smoothed his hair, and Ron appeared spinning.After Gwen and Ginny arrived, the four of them walked out of Professor McGonagall's office and walked towards the Gryffindor Tower.Gwen looked out of the corridor windows. The sun had dipped on the horizon, and the snow on the grounds was deeper than in the Burrow gardens.Hagrid can be seen feeding Buckbeak in front of his hut in the distance.

"Worthless." Ron said confidently, walking up to the fat lady.The Fat Lady, looking paler than usual, flinched at his loud voice.

"No," she said.

"What, 'wrong'?"

"Password changed. Please don't shout."

"But we left school, how do we know—"

"Harry! Gwen! Ginny!"

Hermione came running towards them, flushed, in cloak, hat and gloves.

"I got back two hours ago. Just went to see Hagrid and Buck—I mean Limpwing," she said breathlessly. "Did you have a good Christmas?"

"Well," said Ron quickly, "it's a lot, Rufus Scrimgeour—"

"Harry, I have something for you," Hermione said without looking at Ron, as if she hadn't heard him at all. "Oh - password, quit drinking."

Gwen didn't understand why the two of them hadn't reconciled. After all, even if Hermione and Ron were noisy in the past, at the latest the next day at the breakfast table, they could laugh and make a bunch of affectionately again.

"Correct." The fat lady said weakly, unscrewing her body, revealing the portrait hole.

"What happened to her?" Harry asked.

"It's obviously a crazy Christmas." Hermione rolled her eyes and led the way into the crowded common room. "She and her friend Violet drew a few pictures of the hallway in the Charms classroom Drunk monk Tuli has drunk all the wine. Anyway..."

"I wish I could have had a big shot of liquor, too." Gwen smacked her lips. "Bill's fiancée has pissed me off at least three times, and I can't get mad at her yet."

Ginny twitched on the left side of her face, and patted Gwen sympathetically.

Hermione fumbled in her pocket for a moment, pulling out a roll of parchment with Dumbledore's handwriting on it.

"Great," said Harry, unrolling it immediately, realizing that his next lesson with Dumbledore was tomorrow night. "I have a lot to tell him—and you. Let's sit down—"

At this moment, they suddenly heard a loud scream: "Rolo!" Lavender rushed out from nowhere and stood in front of Ron's nose.A few people nearby giggled, and Ron took a big step back in embarrassment.Hermione gave a silvery laugh, and said, "There's a table over there... Go there, Gwen, Ginny?"

"No, thanks, Dean asked me for help before the holidays, and I'm going over now," said Ginny.Harry couldn't help noticing that she wasn't very keen.Ron and Lavender were entangled in a kind of upright wrestling. Every time the girl took a step forward, Ron had to find a retreat for himself.

"I'm going to find some good wine hidden in my dorm room," Gwen pinched her temple wearily, "and get drunk. Have a good night, good night."

Harry took Hermione to the empty table. Gwen guessed that they must discuss about Snape and Malfoy, and decided to escape from the dispute and enjoy a moment of peace.

The next day, Harry told Ron and Hermione the homework assigned to him by Dumbledore in the make-up class, separately, because Hermione still refused to stay long in front of Ron, and at most just whitened him contemptuously. glance.

Ron didn't think Harry was going to have any trouble with Slughorn.

"He likes you," said Ron at breakfast, flicking a fork with ease to fry an egg, "and won't say no to you, will he? You're his Potions Prince. Stay after class this afternoon to ask He's fine."

Hermione was more pessimistic.

"He must be determined to hide the truth, if even Dumbledore can't get it." She whispered, pretending that she didn't react to Ron's words, "Horcruxes... Horcruxes... I don't have any heard about it……"

"Haven't you heard?" Harry looked disappointed. He must be counting on Hermione to provide some clues.

"Forgive me," Gwen, who was experiencing a hangover, couldn't eat anything, even drank three cups of strong tea, and said weakly with drooping eyelids, "the three of you are discussing so loudly that I can hear them all arrive."

Harry quickly covered his mouth. In Gwen's opinion, Dumbledore probably didn't want him to reveal this information at will.

"But what kind of device is this, if it's something that Hermione doesn't even know about," Gwen was discouraged by Ginny when she poured herself the fourth cup of tea, "I guess it can only appear in the restricted area of ​​the library." Then She whispered to Hermione where she had found the ancient tome with the strange spell last time.

Hermione was thoughtful: "It must be very advanced magic, otherwise why would Voldemort want to know? I think it is very difficult to get this information, Harry, you must be very cautious, how to approach Slughorn, think about it plan."

"Ron said as long as I stay after Potions today..."

"Oh, if Luo Luo says it, you'd better do it," she was furious, "When did Luo Luo miss the judgment?"

"Hermione, you can't—"

"No!" she snapped angrily, turned and walked away, leaving Harry alone.

"How did you offend her?" Ron asked Harry in a low voice, looking at Hermione's haughty back.

Gwen looked at the red-haired boy in amazement, and finally couldn't help but hand him a cup of tea: "Have a cup of tea to refresh yourself, Ronald, I think you are out of your mind."

Ron did lose his mind, but the unfortunate prophecy finally came true on his birthday.

Due to Lavender's unremitting pursuit of enthusiasm and Ron's temporarily unknown attitude, the Savior team has been in a state of falling apart.So early that morning, Harry had to stop Gwen when no one was around.

"Gwen, I have to find out what Malfoy is doing." Harry said anxiously.

"I thought you should be preparing for the Apparition exam at this time." Gwen was a little surprised, remembering her two failed exams, but she was also curious about Malfoy's progress. "What difficulties are you having, Harry?"

The boy produced a square-folded, seemingly blank piece of parchment.He unfolded it and tapped it with the tip of his wand.

"I solemnly swear that I will do no good...or that Malfoy will do no good."

A Marauder's Map immediately appeared on the parchment, drawing a detailed floor plan of each floor of the castle. Many marked black dots were moving on it, representing everyone in the castle.

"Look, like now, there have been times when I couldn't find him on the Marauder's Map anyway." Harry was annoyed.

Gwen was a little interested, and she decided to ignore Harry's stalker behavior, picked up the map, and read it carefully from beginning to end, even the intruders—actually the group of Aurors protecting Hogwarts Guys, check it out too.Finding nothing, he returned the map to him.

"Is there any chance...I mean...Fred and George know of a secret passage?" Harry asked hesitantly.

"I think they know seven in total, and they're all recorded on the map." Gwen shrugged, but then she thought of something, picked up the map again, and first found the location of the Myrtle bathroom on the second floor, He looked again at the location of the underground Slytherin house. "I noticed that the Chamber of Secrets was not recorded. Maybe the little prince of Slytherin went to the Chamber of Secrets to find the big snake." She said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Harry frowned tightly, confirmed the rare loophole in the Marauder's Map himself, and shook his head vigorously, "The professors have sealed the entrance to the secret room long ago—even if he knows where the entrance is, he has to use Parseltongue to open."

Gwen was convinced, and she tilted her head in thought for a moment. "Hey, why don't you ask Lupine and Sirius, the Marauder's Map is their work after all."

Harry didn't think it was a good idea, "Lupine doesn't think Malfoy is worth paying attention to. Sirius...he's not the same as before, I don't want to..."

Gwen interrupted him, "I don't think he's changed at all." She nodded her head with her finger, "Those wonderful ideas are in his head. Maybe the predators gave him Keep a hand, in order not to let others find their location on the map."

"Okay," Harry put away the parchment, "I'll ask him sometime. But I can't do it today, I have to get Ron a present."

Indeed, they could have gone to Hogsmeade to celebrate.But there was a notice on all the common room notice boards that the trip to Hogsmeade had been cancelled, and everyone was very upset, especially Ron.

Gwen and Harry said goodbye, and ran to the library to complete the first round of review tasks for their NEWTs.By the time she left the library in the dark, Ron and Harry had already reached their other stronghold, the Hogwarts Medical Wing.

"So, all in all, Ron had a bad birthday," said Fred.

At night, the school hospital was very quiet, with the curtains drawn and the lights on.only ron